Hello and welcome. My name is Anne Libby. I'm a Professor and Vice Chair in the department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus. I'm also Course Director and one of your lectures for researcher management and leadership training. This course is for early career researchers and their sponsors, who believe that modern scientific careers require management skills and want to be research leaders. This curriculum will give you the skills needed to implement funded projects effectively, and thus enhance scientific career success. We introduce a research leader's roles, rights, and responsibilities by focusing on you as scientific leader, financial administrator, manager, and mentor. We know you're trained in science, and yet most of us started out with significant training gaps in management and leadership. In this course, we will show you how to optimize the people, teams, and finances for which you are responsible. Our goal is to help you have successful research careers by sharing what we've learned in the successful management and leadership of sponsored projects. We're here to teach you and support you in reaching your scientific goals. Our goal is to reach you wherever you are. This course will help you become familiar with skills needed to be an effective research leader, today and in the future. This content is accessible to you on demand over time as you face future problems, challenges, or new situations. Please stay in touch with us after the course ends because we will be adding content and opportunities for life mentoring and other interactive activities in person and virtually. To develop this curriculum, we've spent decades training early career researchers like you, your mentors, and sponsors like chairs. We've worked with hundreds of biomedical researchers locally, nationally, and internationally. This training has always been done in person and we've evaluated the programs and even published about them. We shared them in the resources section if you're interested. The training programs work. They're highly effective and fun, and yet, I haven't been able to invite you all to the University of Colorado to train with me personally. So until and when that can happen, we will come to you. This course is organized into five modules. One module covers leadership principles. We will introduce general leadership theories of behavior, and then focus on scientific leadership of projects with you as the research leader or a principle investigator. Another module is on financial and administrative leadership. This includes financial reporting and regulatory compliance. It's a lot of must-do activities for which many new researchers simply are unaware and therefore unprepared. I want to recognize and acknowledge the importance of the local contexts for this particular module, we are academic medical researchers at a university in the United States, and we will use some of the words and phrases that refer to funders that we face in the US. Nevertheless, this course is not Colorado or US specific. We will emphasize the general principles and make reference to ways in which your institutions and your funders differ. We strive to make this content universally applicable, culturally sensitive, and accessible to everyone. Two modules focus on managing people and teams. One on starting your team and another on growing and maintaining your teams. Here we refer mostly to employees, but these skills can be used in any supervisory relationship. Finally, a module focuses on mentoring. You maybe in a situation where you are being mentored by senior scientists, so this will help you get the most out of those mentoring relationships. This will also build your own skills as a mentor, as you are certainly being asked to start mentoring junior people. So this module will help prepare yourself as a mentee, the person being mentored, and also as a mentor. The content in this course is organized into multiple components. The bulk of content comes as video-based lectures like this one. I want to orient you to our location two and what you see out of the window in the videos. Lectures are given in my office at the University of Colorado at the Anschutz medical campus located in Aurora, Colorado in the Mountain West United States. You will glimpse a beautiful view north and a little bit west, to see what is called the front range of the great Rocky Mountains. Our course lectures are range of people who I really value and respect. Some of my former mentees and also my mentors. They share multiple perspectives as physician, and PhD researchers, and administrative leaders. In addition to the lectures, we have side-by-side question answer interviews to unpack some of the lecture content. These Q&A interviews are optional for the course certificate, but I recommend them as rich discussions where I hope you'll gain great tips and practical wisdom. We also include personal interviews with these guests. So you can get to know their stories a bit more. I hope you'll enjoy getting to know several of my very favorite colleagues. In the course shell, we've posted several resources that are all open to you along with the videos. If you complete all the modules and pass the summative assessments, then you will earn a certificate in research or management and leadership training. Besides demonstrating mastery, a certificate will allow you to enroll in in-person training at the University of Colorado with me. So we recommend, and encourage you, and invite you to consider that option. There are multiple opportunities to give us feedback as you take this course. We sincerely thank you in advance for helping us make this content better for you. If there's something you want to know more about, then please let us know. We will be monitoring the course remarks and discussion threads, and we will attempt to respond to you and meet your needs. If you like this content, then please share it with your colleagues, peers, and mentors. I want to congratulate you on the success you've had so far. I know firsthand the vision and effort that it takes to win a grant. Externally funded grant is an impressive testament to a long period of dedication and hard work. Although we haven't met, I can imagine some things about you. You're probably very curious, you have an entrepreneurial spirit, and often find yourself asking, why? Which means you're ideally suited for a research career. We want to help you fulfill that dream. So let's get started.
